Mark Cridge, Chief Executive
It’s been a year like no other.
2020: pandemics and political shenanigans, lockdowns and leaving — this is a year that no one is going to forget in a hurry.
So whilst all the tumult of this year won’t come as a surprise to anyone, fortunately for us, mySociety’s Annual Report comes out before everyone else’s, so we can get in first with the commentary and a few clichés.
In many ways we have been fortunate. We’ve experienced little operational disturbance, since we’ve always been a remote organisation where everyone works from home. But with travel disallowed and face to face meetings largely a thing of the past, there was nonetheless some disruption. It all began for us with the swift reorganisation of our TICTeC conference: we’d planned to convene in Reykjavik in March; instead we found ourselves running one of the first conferences this year to go online.
With all that 2020 brought, we kept on keeping on. We renamed our businesses, re-emphasising the importance of that little thing called ‘society’ along the way; we launched many new projects and supported hundreds of individuals and organisations to make use of our services — many of which you’ll read about in this report.
Our major theme for 2020? Mostly it’s been about preparing for the years ahead. Read on to see how we’re getting ready to face a new series of challenges, to play our small but crucial part in helping the world to take on the difficult path that lies before us.
